Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
BOETHIUSLove has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Love binds people too, in matrimony’s sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.
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For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.
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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don’t you agree?
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.
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